Hame-fastener.



No. 665,246. Patented. Ian. I, MN.

8. T. MABLETTE.

NAME FASTENER.

(Application filed Aug. 2, 1900.)

(No Model.)

v [WW ATTORNEYS I Urreo STATES SILAS T. MARLETTE, OF BUFFALO, NEYV YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THOMAS G. OBRIEN, OF SAME PLACE.

HAM E-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 665,246, dated January 1, 1901.

Application filed August 2, 1900. Serial No. 25,661- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: ployed, which I will now proceed to describe. Be it known that I, SILAS T. MARLETTE, of The part has a curved seat at its end which Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State ofNew lies under the curved hook I) and is provided York, have invented a new and useful Iinalso on the under side with two lugs c and c 5 provement in Hame-Fasteners, of which the to give a hold for the thumb and forefinger following is a specification. in openingthe parts, as hereinafterdescribed. My invention is in the nature of an im- This curved seat of the part 0 is formed in proved hame-fastener designed for quickly, two branches or is made forked, with two securely, and conveniently connecting the branches connected by a cross-pin f, and the IO lower ends of the hame-sections about the hook I) is also made with a slot in its lower collar with a tightening action and adapted portion. On the branches of the fork of the to be used in connection with any of the ordipart 0 is erected a loop or keeper e, whose nary forms of hames. ends are fixed rigidly to the branches of the It consistsin the peculiar construction and forked seat and whose loop port-ion projects 15 arrangement of the fastener, reference being upwardlythrough the slot of the hook I) of had to the accompanyingdrawings,in which the part B. I

Figure 1 shows a side view applied to the In the slot of the hook I) there is fulcrumed hames and indicating in dotted lines the on a pin g a lockingdatch E, one of whose opened position. Fig. 2 is a detail in side ends projects beyond the hook b and through 20 view of the locking parts opened, and Fig. 3 the branches of the fork of part 0, so as to is a view in section of them closed andlocked. be easily reached to form a fingenlatch. The A A are the two sections of the hames, havother end has an upwardly-curved end which =ing at their lower ends the usual iron loops has two seats (land (1. Into the seat cl there into which the haine-fastener hooks are inlies the end of a wire spring h, which is 25 serted. The hame-fastener consists of the wound around the pin g, which tends to hold part B, having at one end the hook b. The theinner end of the latchdown and the outer part B is jointed at one end upon a pin 1 to end up. The other seatdis adapted to receive the end of section (J, which normally lies the loop of the keeper 6 and hold the two under B and is recessed longitudinally to alparts B and 0 locked together. 30 low the part B to fold into something like the When the device is open and C is closed up blade of a knife into its handle, B correunder B, the loop or keeper estrikes the unsponding to the blade, and 0 its handle. der side of the inner end of latch E, defiect D is the third section, which carries a ing the latter-until the loop passesits end, and jointed hook d, that hooks into the loop of then the latch springs back under the'loop, 35 the other hame. This part D has a narrow effectually locking B and 0 together. To

shank portion that fits into a longitudinal reopen B and C, the outer end of latch E is decess on the under side of the part C and is pressed with the finger until its inner end is jointed to the part 0 ata point 2 between the pulled from beneath the loop, as seen in dotjoint Z of the members B and O and the opted lines in Fig. 3, and then 0 maybe pulled 4o posite end of the part 0. The three parts B down to the dotted position shown in Fig. 1

C D when thus jointed are capable of. being by means of the thumb and forefinger apopened, as shown in dotted lines, and when plied to the two lugs c and 0. thus opened the two books I) and d, which 1am aware that a hame-fastener having connect with the hames, are projected away three jointed sections adapted to draw the 5 5 from each other to loosen the hames, and ends togetherwhen folded is not broadly new, when drawn together again and closed, as and I do not claim this general principle, but shown in full lines, the hooks b and d are only my improved construction and the lockdrawn together and the hames tightened upon ing devices herein shown and described. the collar. A distinguishing feature of my invention I00 50 To hold the parts B and 0 together in the is to be found in the special construction of closed position, special locking devices are emthe intermediate section 0 in relation to the parts B and D. The section C is made wide enough and deep enough to inclose the shanks of both B and D, being recessed at the upper side to receive the shank of B and on the under side to receive the shank of D, while the concave seat of 0 [its closely up againstthe convex side of the hook of the section B,which hook is made of larger size, opens upwardly, and contains the locking devices.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A hame-fasteuer comprising a section B formed with a hooked end opening upwardly, a hooked section D, an intermediate section 0 made wide enough to receive the shanks of both the sections B and D, recessed on the upper side to receive the shank of section B and jointed to it at one end, and having at the other end a curved seat whose concave side fits the convex side of the hook of section B, said section C being also recessed on its under side to receive the shank of section D and being jointed to it at a point near the middle of the said section C, and locking devices connecting the hooked end of B to the curved seat of C substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. A three-part hame-fasiener, one of the end sections being made with a large upturned hook opening upwardly and containing locking devices, and the middle section being formed with a concave scat fitting up against the lower convex side of said hook and cooperating with the locking devices substantially as described.

3. In a name-fastener, the combination of the hooked section B having a slot in the lower portion of the hook, and a spring-actuated locking-latch in the slot, and a subjacent section C having a locking-keeper attached to the same and projecting up through the slot in the hook to engage with the lockinglatch substantially as described.

4:. In a hame-fastener, the combination of the hooked section B having a slot in the lower portion of the hook, and a spring-actuated locking-latch in it, and a subjacent section C having bifurcated curved ends and a loop-shaped keeper rigidly attached to the same and projecting up through the slot in the hook to engagement with the lockinglatch substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SILAS T. MARLETTE. [L. s.]

Witnesses:

JAMES AsH,

CHARLES SENF. 

